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Can someone boil this boilerplate down into 2-4 meaningful sentences?
by geuis 5y ago
Can someone boil this boilerplate down into 2-4 meaningful sentences?
- errwhat 5y agoWe're still doing hosted iaas on aws/gcp/azure and we're adding some small new features, other than its pay per word blog post by the looks of it. Dont get me wrong I like timescale but this is an unclear blog post. tl;dr how is this different than Managed Service for TimescaleDB - it seems identical in features and all the comparison is against serverless and other DBaSSs - reskimmed it and still no clearer
- akulkarni 5y agoThanks for the feedback. What the post is trying to paint is a vision that is different than current DBaaS and "black box" serverless options. Something where you can see and "feel" the database that you are working with (similar to a DBaaS), but where you can still offload the scaling burden (similar to Serverless). That is what we are calling the "transparent box." The new Timescale Cloud is designed around this new vision. It does not fully realize it today, but that is what we are working towards. Hope this helps - and if not, happy to continue the dialogue.
- LoriP 5y agoFrom the author's summary thread: - DBaaS is Familiar and Flexible - Serverless data platforms may be scalable and easy but are not so much Familiar and Flexible. This new Timescale Cloud approach offers : Easy and Scalable - Modern cloud architecture, fully decoupled compute & storage - Autoscaling for worry-free operation - Autoconfig and autotuning, including whenever resources change - Easy to get started and scale with need Familiar and Flexible - Full SQL - Built on Postgres (relational db mental model) - Works w/ all Postgres-compatible tools, connectors, & apps - Developers can be immediately productive, building on existing skills So it's addressing those gaps in the current solutions...
- aeyes 5y agoOne sentence summary: They are now storing your data on EBS instead of local disks.
- errwhat 5y agoThink they've removed the ability to choose non AWS too.. I cant see region selection in docs either. And a price increase.
- akulkarni 5y agoRegion selection coming soon. Price should be cheaper for most configurations. Also, offers decoupled storage / compute, so is more cost effective than needing to resize both at the same time. But let me know if you are seeing differently.
- errwhat 5y agoIts difficult to break out what parts of the site are talking about cloudv1 and cloudv2, Ill wait until site all sorted... Im sure im looking at managed service for timescaledb still named cloud on most of the site. GCP/Azure is gone for cloudv2?
- akulkarni 5y agoManaged Service for TimescaleDB (MST) and the new Timescale Cloud are just two different products. (Not v1 vs v2.) They are both in active use and development. Different users will prefer one over the other. We could do a better job describing the differences on our website - noted (thanks!) GCP/Azure are still supported on MST.
- aeyes 5y agoSo there are now 3 hosted offerings? Forge, v1 and v2? This is getting extremely confusing.